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Terrorism, Drugs, and Violence in Latin America

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2022

Jennifer S. Holmes
Jennifer S. Holmes*
Affiliation:
University of Texas at Dallas
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Latin American Research Review , Volume 37 , Issue 3 , 2002 , pp. 217 - 230
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Copyright © 2002 by the University of Texas Press

References

1. The acción de tutela is an innovation introduced in the Constitution of 1991 that gives citizens access to the court system when they believe public officials have violated or failed to protect their rights.

2. The M-19 seized the Palacio de Justicia in 1985, an act that resulted in the deaths of one hundred persons, including eleven supreme court justices.

3. Published by Scholarly Resources in 1992.

4. It should be noted that in 2001, Human Rights Watch released a special report documenting the abuses of FARC. See Human Rights Watch, “Colombia: Rebel Abuses Worsening,” July 2001, available online at www.hwr.org/press/2001/07/farc-0709.htm.

5. Martha Crenshaw, Terrorism in Context (University Park: Pennsylvania State Press, 1995).